Former Ally : 'Mayors' Goal: Confiscation'

[Spartan]

Former Bloomberg Ally Says 'Mayors' Group's Goal Is Gun Confiscation
Michael Bloomberg
A former member of Michael Bloomberg's gun control group claimed this week that the group's objectives are far more radical than it has let on.

John Tkazyik, the mayor of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., said he quit the former New York City mayor's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, after he realized its objective was outright confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens.

"Under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intend[s] to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens,” Tkazyik wrote in a Wednesday column in the Poughkeepsie Journal.


I'm the mayor of one of the largest cities in the Hudson Valley, just 90 minutes north of New York City. I'm a life member of the National Rifle Association and a former member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, or MAIG, started by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2006.

I'm no longer a member of MAIG. Why? Just as Ronald Reagan said of the Democratic Party, it left me. And I'm not alone: Nearly 50 pro-Second Amendment mayors have left the organization. They left for the same reason I did. MAIG became a vehicle for Bloomberg to promote his personal gun-control agenda -- violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and taking resources away from initiatives that could actually work to protect our neighborhoods and save precious lives. [...]

It did not take long to realize that MAIG's agenda was much more than ridding felons of illegal guns; that under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens. I don't believe, never have believed and never will believe that public safety is enhanced by encroaching on our right to bear arms, and I will not be a part of any organization that does

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[LarryP]

No surprise there. That's the goal of every Anti gun group/person.

[LePetomane]

Mayors against Guns. That is what the mission of the organization really is. None of their proposals will take guns out of the hands of criminals.

[Texastransplant]

As if there was ever any doubt.

[Lumpy]

Sounds like they wish they could go back to the progressive "law'n'order" of the early 20th century. There had been state and local gun control laws (mostly against African-Americans) before, but that was when infringement on the 2nd Amendment became national in scope. Specifically, this is when "A Uniform Act to Regulate the Sale and Possession of Firearms" was first proposed. This model law, adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws* and supported by the National Rifle Association (back in their bad old fudd days) prohibited unlicensed concealed handguns. This more or less codified a national movement by state and local officials to give police a monopoly on legal firearms in America's cities, and established "may issue" (in practice, "may refuse issue") as the default for carry for decades.

*Read up a little about the Uniform Law Commission if you want to know about an organization that's so low-profile yet so influential that it sounds like something out of a conspiracy theory.